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Fox Home Entertainment has officially announced the latest Fantastic Four film

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Fox Home Entertainment has announced single ($29.98) and double-disc editions ($34.98) of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer which stars Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, and Ioan Gruffudd. Each will be available to own from the 2nd October. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The only extras on the single-disc will be a commentary by director Tim Story, and a commentary by producer Avi Arad, writer Don Payne and film editors Peter S. Elliot and William Hoy. The two-disc "Power Cosmic Edition" will include that, along with extended/deleted scenes with optional commentary, a making of documentary, a featurette on the Comic Book Origins of The Silver Surfer, a FantastiCar: State of the Art featurette, and a Power Cosmic special effects featurette. Completing the package will be a Character Design With Spectral Motion featurette, a Scoring the Fantastic featurette, an Interactive FantastiCar concept images gallery, still galleries (behind the scenes, characters, and concept art) and trailers. The official package artwork is attached below:

Also available from the 2nd will be a Blu-ray release of the film. The release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The disc will feature all of the above features, along with the BD exclusive “Saving The World One Question at a Time” trivia game, “Who Dares Defy Galactus?” multi-player strategy game, D-Box motion sensor capabilities and several HD trailers.

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YlowBstard66 wrote: It was a lot better than the original... but that's not saying a helluva lot. I like the two- disc art, but what is up with the "POWER COSMIC EDITION" title???I personally will wait for the "any excuse to put a lame marketting tag on a dvd" edition

Man, that 2-disc set looks sweet. I just had a hard time convincing myself that a 90-minute movie could be called a "superheroe" movie. Though much of the useless antics were spent in the first... If only Fox could have thought of the same treatment for the Die-Hard 4 s**tty edition. They could have called them: The "PG-13 edition" (single disc) and "Truely Die Hard Fan With All The Blood You've Come To Expect Edition". Fox won't return my emails for those bright ideas... I dunno why.

mc_serenity wrote: Lincoln6Echo wrote: Why go spend around 50% of the cost of the DVD at the theater to watch just the film (no extras) with a bunch of people that I wouldn't let in my house, when I can just wait a few months and buy the DVD and wqatch it whenever, and with whgoever I want. And now that I have an HDTV, there's really no reason to go to the theaters.

And you hardly pay 50% of what one can pay for a DVD release if one goes to a cheap (and less crowded) matinee showing, without buying the overly priced concessions. But the cost of watching a movie varies greatly from state to state, so you may have a valid point there.

I still go to theaters some, but not nearly as much as I used to. For me, the DVD is much cheaper than a night at the movies: not all of us live near a theater. To see something on the big screen, I have to drive 60 miles to Memphis. And then 60 miles back home. That's about twenty bucks worth of gas, plus my movie ticket. I still go for the big events, but I'm increasingly thinking "wait for the DVD", especially in light of how utterly disappointing some of this summer's flicks have been (and yes, Spider-Man 3, I'm talking about you).

As for FF, the 2 disc cover rocks. The movie wasn't really faithful to the original comic story, so as a lifelong comic geek I was kinda bummed by it; but as a movie fan looking for a good summer popcorn movie, it worked. (That's not really much of an endorsement, is it? Hmm...)

Stephen Etherton wrote: I liked it. It was an improvement over the first one, and much more fun. By the time they get to the (fantastic) fourth movie, they wil totally hit their stride in this franchise.

I liked the movie, but I don't love it. For certain movies I just don't care about extras... and this movie is one in particular. Plus, the single-disc edition is cheap and has two extras (which is better than nothing). And it will look better on my shelf next to the first movie.

I was all over this movie since day 1 when they announced the Silver Surfer was going to be featured. So, natch, I'm all over this DVD when it comes out and forget the single disc deal. Yeah, Alba's a babe but it's Bro's before Ho's on this outing. I also cannot wait for a Silver Surfer movie all by his shiny lonesome.

I seem to be one of the few defenders of the Fantastic Four films. All because they don't take themselves so seriously as to seem as if they were trying to tell Shakespeare of Biblical stories (*AHEM*Spider-man 3*COUGH) doesn't make them bad films. I find them both a serious breath of fresh air. Light-hearted fun and a good time at the movies! Not some melodramatic piece of excess.

And I'm also very pleased that the two-disc set is being released at the same time. I was hoping for an extended cut (as the movie IS pretty short), but this is still most satisfying.

This film was a significant improvement over the first. It was actually fun and entertaining, with passable effects and action. It'll be the 2-Disc Edition for me, but I do think the cover for it is a little dark for a film that is still for kids. Anyway, the special features more than make up for it.

mc_serenity wrote: superhippie2 wrote: 2 disc cover is great. im getting that one. i heard the single disc is a flipper disc so that really blows.

It is, but those people who still prefer the full-screen option (are there many of those out there?) are stuck with the widescreen edition on it as well.

i used to like fullscreen but then i was like what the hell ill get wide cause it tends to have less cut off the sides and one day when all tvs are widescreen it will work. honestly i think they want the extra 5 bucks for the 2 disc so they force you to buy it cause flippers are so hated. hopefully the first disc of the 2 disc isnt the flipper from the first disc. bleh.

I like the 2-disc art well enough. Even though the Surfer didn't even really have that much screen time. That was a really cool movie, IMO. It wasn't a cinematical masterpiece, but a nice piece of comicy goodness.

Hated the first one, and didn't get a chance to see this one. This one looks a lot better from what I saw from the previews, and a few friends said this was good. Maybe I'll catch it before it exits theaters. The only negative thing I was told is that it's too short.

Lincoln6Echo wrote: Why go spend around 50% of the cost of the DVD at the theater to watch just the film (no extras) with a bunch of people that I wouldn't let in my house, when I can just wait a few months and buy the DVD and wqatch it whenever, and with whgoever I want. And now that I have an HDTV, there's really no reason to go to the theaters.

That's a big shame... there are some movies nowadays that deserve to be seen on the big screen (not this particular movie, but others). Not even the biggest and best home theaters really replicates the feeling of watching a movie in a genuine theater auditorium, in my opinion.

And you hardly pay 50% of what one can pay for a DVD release if one goes to a cheap (and less crowded) matinee showing, without buying the overly priced concessions. But the cost of watching a movie varies greatly from state to state, so you may have a valid point there.

Director7 wrote: So does the Blu-Ray edition come with everything the 2-Disc Edition? Yes it does, in addition to a few more exclusive extras. On a side note, the artwork for the Blu-ray disc is identical to the single-disc artwork.

If I used that requirement for buying DVDs, I'd never buy a DVD. I haven't been to the theaters in nearly 5 years. Why? DVDs. Why go spend around 50% of the cost of the DVD at the theater to watch just the film (no extras) with a bunch of people that I wouldn't let in my house, when I can just wait a few months and buy the DVD and wqatch it whenever, and with whgoever I want. And now that I have an HDTV, there's really no reason to go to the theaters.